Example Sentences
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The promise is that our guilt can be expiated by making money.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2017
Generally, there is—much later—a period of national reckoning when the sins of the moment of crisis are both expiated and forgiven.
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2015
Before Milly had nearly gone this painful round, her sin was thoroughly expiated.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1932 when I visited Bulgaria I expiated this crime by buying a cartful of peaches and distributing them to a dozen youngsters.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Toward the end of the last century the French people overthrew the monarchy, and the last absolute king expiated on the scaffold his own crimes and those of his predecessors."
From Anarchism by Eltzbacher, Paul
